APRIL 2015 1 Executive Committee: President Ms Lisa Gamon 883-5336 VP-Eglin Ms Brianna Hoppel 883-4238 VP-Hurlburt MSgt Daniel Doble 884-2152 VP-Tenant Ms Connie Clay 883-2890 Secretary Ms Sharon Pedersen 883-0695 Treasurer Ms Michelle Woolgar 882-6700 x 7800 2 nd Treasurer Ms Mandy Chapman 883-2237 Reconciler Ms Angela Gilbert 883-3412 Programs Mr Joe Proctor 882-4593 Ms Connie Clay 883-2890 Ms Kimberly Sypher 882-7682 Publicity Mr David Herndon 883-5318 Mr Max Miller 883-4294 Mini-PDI Ms Michelle Woolgar 882-6700 x 7800 Membership Ms Lindsey Stephan 883-4925 Education/CDFM Mr Ron Millis 883-0158 Ms Dorothy Goring-Briley 883-8755 Enlisted Advisors: Hurlburt MSgt Arnold Soto 884-1548 Eglin TSgt Kimberly Holen 883-4703 Ways & Means Roger Kendall 882-2148 Mika Gellinger 882-8650 Community Service Mr Robert Turpin 883-5332 Ms Deb Privette 883-5299 Awards Mr George Joseph 883-2123 Ms Kaci Harris 883-3961 Webmaster Mr Jason Guzzardo 882-7595 Newsletter Ms Brianna Hoppel 883-4238
President s Corner 2 Where has this year gone? The 2 nd quarter has come to a close and before we know it, it will be another year end close out (yes, I hear the collective groans). Just kidding! Apr is the month where we do elections for next year s executive board. If you are thinking of running, please get with Brianna Hoppel to find out what the job description is for the position you want this great organization will stay great as long as we have the participation. AND, if you have suggestions for ways to improve, insightful ideas for luncheons, love to help generate funding for local scholarships or would like to benefit from networking, we would love to have you on the Executive Committee Think on it. Speaking of volunteering, special thanks to all that volunteered in Mar with our various supported charities we closed out the year strong and met our Community Service goal for our 5 star chapter award. Way to go Gulf Coast chapter! - Lisa Gamon, ASMC President MINUTES: Executive Council The ASMC Executive Committee meeting minutes are posted on the Gulf Coast Chapter webpage. To review them, please go to the website: http://www.gulfcoastasmc.org/ and click on the tab marked Minutes along the top.
Upcoming Events 3 APRIL LUNCHEON When: 15 April 2015 at 11:30am Where: Bayview Club Ballroom What: Personal Financial Management https://cs3.eis.af.mil/sites/oo-ed-aa-a2/aq/registration/registration/registration.aspx When: Where: What: MAY LUNCHEON 20 May at 11:30am Soundside Club, Hurlburt New Officer Induction and DEAMS **Link will be posted after April luncheon Mini-PDI 2015 It's that time of year again; we are looking for volunteers to be a part of the Mini- PDI 2015. All committees are still open for chairs and co-chairs. We would like to make this year better than ever. Keep your eye out for the next planning meeting, April 9 th, 2pm at Enlisted Hall. The chair for this year's Mini-PDI is John Feagin, john.feagin@us.af.mil and co-chair is Michelle Woolgar, michelle.woolgar@us.af.mil. Please email either if you have any questions, suggestions, or would like to be part of this exciting volunteer opportunity.
7th Annual ASMC Golf Tournament 4 Person Scramble Golf Tournament to support ASMC s Scholarship Program When: Friday, 8 May 2015 Where: Pre-registration deadline 5 May 2015 Eglin Golf Course (Falcon) Check-in: 11:30 lunch and 1:00 shotgun start Cost: Prizes: $50.00 per person includes entry feeand lunch, and Mulligan package(2 mulligans, 1 red ball buster, string) At least 1st, 2nd,3rd Place prizes!!!! Longest Drive, Closest To The Pin Embroidered ASMC Golf Towels on sale $25 ($10 goes to Scholarship Fund) Pre-Registration Eglin POC: Roger Kendall (850)585-8744 email: willeys1942@yahoo.com AFI34-223 8 MARCH 2007 "THIS IS A PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. IT IS NOT A PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR ANY OF ITS COMPONENTS AND IT HAS NO GOVERNMENTAL STATUS"
Education 5 The Education Committee has begun soliciting chapter members, college students and high school seniors for 2014-2015 scholarship awards. Chapter member's scholarships are limited to college students in academic disciplines relating to financial management who are seeking either an undergraduate degree or a postgraduate degree. An official transcript must be submitted with the application. Non-chapter member scholarships are limited to high school seniors and college students in academic disciplines relating to financial/resource management (such as business administration, economics, public administration, accounting, or finance) who are seeking an undergraduate degree. College students must have at least 2 years (60 semester hours) of college, or will have 60 hours completed by the end of their spring 2015 semester. An official transcript must be submitted (for college students only). Applicants will be required to submit applications via mail or email NLT May 8, 2015. Visit the chapter Education page at http://www.gulfcoastasmc.org/education.html for more details. MEMBERSHIP Membership is available to individuals who are actively employed in military comptrollership, as active duty or civilian personnel for DoD or USCG. Associate membership is available for those who don't meet the qualifications but are currently employed in a defense related financial management field. Employees of private sector companies who are interested in ASMC membership may join under the corporate membership program. New military members E1-E4 and civilian GS1-GS7 can be reimbursed for half of their yearly membership fee. *New members only.* I will be providing information about upcoming membership drives and other activities as they are planned. To register to become a new member, please visit the ASMC Website (Pg 10). Chair: Lindsey Stephan, 883-4925, lindsey.stephan@us.af.mil
CDFM 6 Congratulations to our newest CDFM awardees: Philip Herzog, Rachael Peoples, and Jeanette Sherritze! To view a list of Gulf Coast Chapter CDFM awarded go to http://www.asmconline.org/certification/cdfm-information/cdfm-awarded/ and search by chapter. We currently have Module 4 Acquisition Business Management course scheduled for 21-23 April 2015. If you are interested in attending please access https://cs3.eis.af.mil/sites/oo-ed-aa- A2/AQ/Registration/Registration/Registration.aspx and register. Training guides will be provided. The Gulf Coast Chapter is also expecting an Enhanced Financial Management Training Course (EDFMT) course module 1-3 summer 2015. You must renew your certification with ASMC every two years and is reimbursable. To do this, you must complete 80 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) in every two-year period following the issuance of your certification. The anniversary date for measuring the CPE qualification is two years from the date your CDFM certification is issued. One unit of CPE is awarded for each 50 minutes of contact time engaged in activities listed below. You may be asked, as part of the renewal, to provide evidence of your CPE. Renewal cost is $20.00 for active ASMC members and $40.00 for nonmembers. The renewal fee is charged biennially starting 90 days before your renewal date. Renewal Login: https://imis.asmconline.org/net/login.aspx?returnurl=%2fnet%2frenewal.aspx. The renewal reimbursement process is the same as requesting reimbursement for testing. Education/CDFM POCs: Dorothy Goring-Briley (dorothy.goringbriley.2@us.af.mil) 3-8755 Ron Millis (Ronald.millis@us.af.mil) 3-2150
Community Service RELAY FOR LIFE: Now is the time to sign up if you would like to participate with the ASMC Relay for Life team (Comptrollers for a Cause) http://main.acsevents.org/site/tr/relayforlife/rflcy15fl?pg=entry&fr_id=63748 7 Save the Dates: Relay Meeting will be held on Apr 16, 2015 (Bldg 11 Rm 262 @1100). (Coupon books still available) April - Relay for Life will also hosting a yard sale. Date TBD If you have items you would like to donate please contact Roger Kendall or Dedra Hickman. April- 24 @530 p.m. CLemenzas hosting a spaghetti dinner/ proceeds go to relay for life. See attached flyer. Limited seats available. May 1st 6:00 P.M.-6:00 A.M. Walkers needed! Please contact Kristen Pedro if interested in helping or walking the TRACK! Please make sure to submit any volunteer hours to Rob Turpin or Deb Privette. Community Service Chairs: Rob Turpin, Co-chair, robert.turpin.2@us.af.mil, 883-5332 Deb Privette, Co-chair, deborah.privette@us.af.mil, 883-5299 Susan Ashworth, Habitat for Humanity Okaloosa County, susan.ashworth@us.af.mil, 883-0164 Patrick Dewitt, Deployable Care Packages, patrick.dewitt.4@us.af.mil, 883-4874 Sara Bennett, Shelter House, sara.bennett.3@us.af.mil, 883-1980 Gabriella Geier-DuReitz, Fisher House, gabriella.geier-dureitz.2@us.af.mil, 882-5485 Laura Gamble, Soldiers Angels, laura.gamble@us.af.mil, 884-6869
Spaghetti w/meat Sauce Incl House Salad Incl Bread Incl Soft Drink Incl Cannoli Incl Minimum Donation $25.00 *Other beverages and Desserts available for purchase. Please take care of your Wait Staff! *Limited Seats Only Proceeds to Benefit the Relay for Life 75 Eglin Pkwy NE, FWB, FL (Located in Uptown Station) Please RSVP to Kristen Pedro 883-2152 or kristen.pedro.1@us.af.mil
ASMC Annual Awards 9 Please join us in congratulating the following winners for the 2014 ASMC Gulf Coast Chapter Awards: Accounting & Finance TSgt Amber Foster Budgeting Capt Andrew Fingall Large Team Achievement 96 CPTS/FMA Acquisition/Cost Analysis Eric Flinchum Intern/Trainee Nicole Gray Small Team Achievement AFSOC Portal Team Auditing Jeanette Duncan Resource Management SrA Anthony Dickens Financial Systems Jason Guzzardo Comptroller/Deputy Comptroller Maj James Cunningham Contractor Support Ginnie Spock Again, congratulations to all of the nominees and a special thank you to all of those who took the time to nominate and recognize your fellow colleagues! Thank You, Kaci Harris & George Joseph Awards Co-Chairs
Websites 10 We re on FACEBOOK! We are pleased to announce that our Chapter s Facebook page is up and running! We will utilize this venue to share announcements of events and praises going on throughout our chapter. If you would like to submit a picture to share on the Chapter Facebook page, please email it to, gulfcoast.asmc@gmail.com, and be sure to include a caption. Pictures must be related to Chapter members/events. Be sure to like our page! https://m.facebook.com/gulfcoast.asmc. ASMC WEBSITES ASMC National Headquarters website is: http://www.asmconline.org/ Gulf Coast Chapter website is: http://www.gulfcoastasmc.org/ We are looking for new ideas to include on our webpage. Please contact our webmasters Jason Guzzardo (882-7595) or David Locht (882-0057) if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on chapter website issues. NATIONAL NEWS National PDI 2015 will be held in New Orleans, LA. Please take advantage of other opportunities to fulfill your required CDFM CPEs to include local chapter training events, programs offered through the Online Learning Center, such as the recent Sequestration webinar, PDI 2011-2014 recorded sessions, and Armed Forces Comptroller journal articles. Use the link found on www.asmconline.org to register and take tests as applicable to get your credit.
Think You Know Which Agencies Are Most Innovative? by Charles S. Clark, Apr 2nd, govexec.com 11 It may not surprise many people that NASA is deemed among the most innovative federal agencies, but a study released Thursday points to a handful of other agencies that probably aren t top of mind when people think about creativity in government. The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, working with Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Hay Group, used a 100-point scale structured around questions from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to rank agencies in the area of innovation. Among large agencies, the space agency s employees were deemed most focused on improving fulfillment of the mission, followed by the State and Commerce departments. Among mid-size agencies, the most innovative are the Federal Trade Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Science Foundation. Top innovators among small agencies include the Surface Transportation Board, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Peace Corps. These agencies are developing innovative cultures by rewarding creativity, by providing forums for employees to share and test new ideas, by encouraging responsible risk-taking and by bringing in outside talent for rotational assignments to infuse new ideas into the workplace, the study said. At the bottom of the innovators rankings among large agencies are the Intelligence Community, and the Homeland Security and Labor departments. The rankings come at a time when the Obama administration, as announced in its fiscal 2016 budget, is calling for pilot projects on innovation at five agencies to generate promising employee ideas that will improve government effectiveness and develop a culture of innovation that yields results.
Think You Know Which Agencies Are Most Innovative? by Charles S. Clark, Apr 2nd, govexec.com 12 The Partnership s analysts note that opportunities for innovation at prospective employers were cited by two-thirds of some 3,200 millennials in a Deloitte survey, millennials being a primary target of federal recruiters. Overall agency innovation scores, however, have fallen 4.4 points since the Partnership started measuring innovation in 2010, coinciding with the overall decline in federal employee job and workplace satisfaction, the study said. The topic with the biggest impact on the innovation score involved whether employees are recognized for providing high quality products and services, the study said. This was one of the lowest-scoring questions, with a rating of 42.5 percent out of 100. The second-most important factor contributing to employee views on innovation is whether they have opportunities to improve their skills. Asked whether some agency missions make innovation easier than for others, Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership, told Government Executive, We re not talking about the newest high-tech gizmo, but people looking for ways to do their jobs better and getting support from the organization or leadership, he said. No matter what the agency does, people always want that -- to not allow the past to define the future. NASA, he added, uses innovation and holds people accountable when there is no margin for error, because people can die. Krystal Hall, a NASA human resources development specialist quoted in the study, pointed to the value of recognition awards to encourage smart risk-taking and a workforce that shares responsibility. An innovative culture requires nurturing, which includes a combination of rewards, training and the proper workplace climate. The Partnership recommends creative awards, both monetary and nonmonetary, along with idea incubator programs championed by the Health and Human Services Department, as well as platforms to host challenges for users around the country to help solve and keep employees informed.